Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound
Found on OMG Ubuntu on Friday, 17 March 2017
Lubuntu 16.04 LTS is one of the distros that use ALSA by default. Lubuntu users who upgraded to Firefox 52 through the regular update channel were, without warning, left with a web browser that plays no sound.
For now only real “solution” to get sound working in Firefox on ALSA systems is to either downgrade to an earlier version of Firefox; switch to Firefox ESR (which still has ALSA support at the time of writing); switch to a different browser entirely (Chromium plays nicely with ALSA) — or suck it up and install PulseAudio.
ChromeCloneFirefox has for quite some time now gone the same way the old Netscape did, and it will most likely end up dead too. Mozilla can sink so much money into useless projects, but it cannot invest a few hours to fix the problems it complains about with ALSA? Instead the solution is to just install something else that works around those bugs.Brilliant.